Reply to text messages

rikwebb · Jul 7, 2014

Ok folks,
I have my new Samsung Gear Live and its paired to my HTC One M7

Although I'm sure that I should be able to reply to SMS messages, the option is not available.
I can say "OK Google" "text fred bloggs" from the home screen and that works.
Do you think the limitation is something to do with HTC's SMS client?

Rik

findjaime · Jul 7, 2014

I have the Live w/HTC One M8.

I'm inclined to believe that the reason my replies work is because I have (just started) SMS texting via Hangouts. I only switched from my normal texting client because I knew that the Wear watches would work out of the box w/Hangouts.

That said, Hangouts is a pretty lousy texting app, but I like that it's baked into Wear.

rikwebb said:
Ok folks,
I have my new Samsung Gear Live and its paired to my HTC One M7

Although I'm sure that I should be able to reply to SMS messages, the option is not available.
I can say "OK Google" "text fred bloggs" from the home screen and that works.
Do you think the limitation is something to do with HTC's SMS client?

Rik

Maturola · Jul 7, 2014

rikwebb said:
Ok folks,
I have my new Samsung Gear Live and its paired to my HTC One M7

Although I'm sure that I should be able to reply to SMS messages, the option is not available.
I can say "OK Google" "text fred bloggs" from the home screen and that works.
Do you think the limitation is something to do with HTC's SMS client?

Rik

Ok so I don't have my Gear live yet (is on the truck out for delivery), however I asked a similar question and for what I understand you won;t be able to replay to the SMS until the App is updated with the new API to support that. I believe the only one that currently support that is Google own's "Hangouts".

gadgetgaz · Jul 7, 2014

On Google's promotional video for Android Wear, where the guy is on the bus, he gets a text message and says, "reply - be there in 2" and the message is sent.
That does not seem to work but you can make a swipe until you get a "reply" screen that enables you to speak a reply.

rikwebb · Jul 7, 2014

Thanks for the info chaps.

I don't even have the swipe across to reply option - all I get is the open on phone option

The reply by voice is one of the key things I was hoping for.

Naughty Google promo's grrrrrr.

Oh well - I suppose we are the beta testers

MrMediaGuy · Jul 7, 2014

Same issue here with Gear Live and HTC One M7. I can "Open on phone" when I receive an SMS, but no reply options. Assuming this is a limitation of the HTC Messaging client not being "Wear-aware".... although FWIW I can reply to SMS natively on my M7 via Google Glass, which is essentially using the same set of APIs as far as I know.

So I switched (grudgingly) to Hangouts as my SMS client and all works fine. (Interestingly, the HTC SMS client as well as Google Voice continue to stay synched with Hangouts in the background, so I can still use the GV app or Web interface from other devices.)

rikwebb · Jul 8, 2014

MrMediaGuy said:
Same issue here with Gear Live and HTC One M7. I can "Open on phone" when I receive an SMS, but no reply options. Assuming this is a limitation of the HTC Messaging client not being "Wear-aware".... although FWIW I can reply to SMS natively on my M7 via Google Glass, which is essentially using the same set of APIs as far as I know.

So I switched (grudgingly) to Hangouts as my SMS client and all works fine. (Interestingly, the HTC SMS client as well as Google Voice continue to stay synched with Hangouts in the background, so I can still use the GV app or Web interface from other devices.)

Yep - done the same here

Still no reply without swiping though

I'm sure it will come

Brendo · Jul 8, 2014

Pretty sure app needs to support wear api before watch can interact with it

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dmunjal · Jul 8, 2014

Brendo said:
Pretty sure app needs to support wear api before watch can interact with it

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Can it just support actionable notifications to work?

adiliyo · Jul 8, 2014

dmunjal said:
Can it just support actionable notifications to work?

no i think it needs to support android wear specifically. hangouts and evolve both do as of right now, i'd imagine most of the big apps will follow suit sooner rather than later since they stated that it was minimal amount of code that needed to be added in

jimbohurt · Jul 8, 2014

A little disapointed to read this (mine will be here thursday) but dont forget guys. Updates, updates, updates!! Im sure it will work soon.

adiliyo · Jul 9, 2014

jimbohurt said:
A little disapointed to read this (mine will be here thursday) but dont forget guys. Updates, updates, updates!! Im sure it will work soon.

if the sms app you use don't support wear, i'd get in contact with the devs, it's almost a trivial amount of coding that needs to be done to support wear!

thevoiceless · Jul 9, 2014

adiliyo said:
if the sms app you use don't support wear, i'd get in contact with the devs, it's almost a trivial amount of coding that needs to be done to support wear!

Unless you use the AOSP SMS app

adiliyo · Jul 9, 2014

thevoiceless said:
Unless you use the AOSP SMS app

i wonder if will be updated with wear support since google uses hangouts now and i don't see them adding wear support to aosp apps that they have essentially abandoned.

maybe see if the 8sms devs can add support since it's very similar to aosp messaging?

kramdens · Jul 11, 2014

gadgetgaz said:
On Google's promotional video for Android Wear, where the guy is on the bus, he gets a text message and says, "reply - be there in 2" and the message is sent.
That does not seem to work but you can make a swipe until you get a "reply" screen that enables you to speak a reply.

When I swipe, I see REPLY, but when i press it, it basically just goes to a check mark.. doesn't even let me say anything.

thevoiceless · Jul 11, 2014

kramdens said:
When I swipe, I see REPLY, but when i press it, it basically just goes to a check mark.. doesn't even let me say anything.

What app? Apps need to be updated to trigger voice input from Wear notifications, so it might be opening the "reply" screen on your phone. If not, I have no idea.

kramdens · Jul 11, 2014

thevoiceless said:
What app? Apps need to be updated to trigger voice input from Wear notifications, so it might be opening the "reply" screen on your phone. If not, I have no idea.

The stock text message app on the Samsung Galalxy S5

Scotty_Two · Jul 11, 2014

I'm using Hangouts on an N5, but anytime that I try to send a message, it defaults to SMS (through Hangouts) instead of a chat message, which is what I want. Even if I'm replying to a chat that someone just sent me, it tries to send it as an SMS. Quite annoying.

adiliyo · Jul 11, 2014

kramdens said:
The stock text message app on the Samsung Galalxy S5

that won't work until samsung updates their apps to include wear support.

as of right now the only apps i know of are evolve sms and hangouts

FynxSyndct · Jul 15, 2014

when i initially received my watch, I added most of the apps to my G2. I'm using contacts+ for SMS which has wear compatibility. works fine for verbal replies from the watch.

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